Tour de France 2009

Running from Saturday July 4^th to Sunday July 26^th 2009, the 96^th Tour de France will be made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,500 kilometres.

These 21 stages have the following profiles:

• 10 flat stages,
• 7 mountain stages,
• 1 medium mountain stage,
• 2 individual time-trial stages,
• 1 team time-trial stage.
• 3 mountain finishes,
• 2 rest days,
• 55 kilometres of individual time-trials,
• 20 Category 1, Category 2 and highest level passes will be climbed.

Grand start 2009 – MONACO

After the official presentation of the riders, the magnificent setting of the Rock will be the site of the opening test – a fifteen kilometre time trial.

Satellite TV:

• ARD – Germany
• Eurosport – Europe
• Évasion – Canada
• France TV – France
• ITV – Great Britain
• NOS – Netherlands
• RTBF – Belgium
• RTL – Luxembourg
• SBS – Australia
• Sky Sport – New Zealand
• SuperSport – South Africa
• TV2 – Denmark
• TV2 – Norway
• TV5 Monde
• Versus – United States
• VRT – Belgium
• ZDF – Germany